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Episode Transcript
Hi, it's Daniel Mallee. We'll see you next week for
all new shows in an all new year. In the meantime,
these are a few of my favorite things from the
Treehouse Show in twenty twenty five. It is time you'll
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leave your worries outside and laugh with us inside the Treehouse.
I'm Daniel Malley along with Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma.
Today is Thursday, April twenty fourth, two thousand, twenty five. Trey,
If you don't mind, I'd like to quote you from
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earlier this week, just when you thought it was going
to be a boring week, the.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Pope dies, you can get a conclave.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Am gonna skirt it up? Yeah, just when you think
it's going to be a boring week, we get a conclave. Well,
I forgot that. There's you know, there's the eventual conclave,
which is uh, it's all the cardinals of the Catholic
Church all come together into one room. They get locked
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inside of it and they have to decide on who
the new Pope is going to be. But before and
then we all start watching Chimney smoke like crazy. But
before all that happens, I forgot about all the other
traditions that take place. Where where did it go here?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
It is? Yeah, there's.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
There's a lot of ancient traditions that really seemed to
be redundant at this point because of modern technology, but they.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Still do them. For example, with the death of Pope Francis,
we're learning about the selection of a new pope, but
there are also some very interesting things they do with
the dead pope. Historic rites and rituals are performed after
the death of a pope, including three blows to the
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head with a silver hammer. Well they say it's supposed
to be three gentle taps on the forehead, but the
silver hammer part is accurate. And I know what you're thinking.
Are they checking to see if anyone's home?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Is this some.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Really weird Catholic version of a werewolf test? It's actually
the former. They're making sure he's dead. Look, I like traditions,
you know, I like routine, but I think that's one
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that you know, like, like you said, Trey, technology exists
that you can find out if there's anyone still at
home inside the pope. You don't need to use the
silver hammer method, although it is very entertaining.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Well it also it also the other interesting thing about
it is when they're doing that, they use his first
name now, so he's been going by Pope Francis for
it since eleven years.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
So now they go pack or right in there, Frank, Frank,
you in there, Frank?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
What if you're a what if you're a really heavy
sleeper and the three taps don't work?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Well, that's when you you know, the strength test at
the arcade or or at the state fair with the
really big hammer. Frank in there? Hey, look, high score,
I get a free turkey leg.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Frank.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Wake up, there's a making lady in here.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
But what if he did?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
He's like, how long have how long have I been out?
What I miss?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
No? You're right, yeah, they actually uh, they tap him
on the head. Certain rights and rituals follow the death
of a pope, including tapping his forehead with a silver hammer.
It is the carme lingo's duty to perform the right,
administering three gentle taps on the pope's forehead and calling
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him by his first name. It's the traditional way of
making sure a pope has died. Thanks, thank you, thank
you Catholicism for keeping certain traditions alive. Did they air
that by the way have they done that test or
is that the last thing they do before they take
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it out of lying in the state.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Oh no, this is done in his like typically the
pontiff dies in his quarters and so it's it's all
done while he's in his bed.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And behind closed doors. Like closed doors. I want to
watch that, the breaking of the seal, the.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I want to see the tapping of the pope. Carry
that live on cable news.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
They got a crush his ring, the ring that he
the papal ring that he They.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Have to break it, of course, you just have to
break it then melted down to a new one.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
But this pope.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Typically those are gold rings. This one shows sterling silver,
which a may prove harder to break.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
But uh, which also served as another test that he
was in fact not a werewolf.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yes, but all these all these things happened for a reason,
Like the tapping of the head. That had to happen
for a reason, like they thought someone was dead.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
There was one time some dude woke up. They're like, okay, yeah, yeah,
you got to start tapping these guys.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You know.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
They're like they're putting the holy water on him and
it gets splashed in the fen and it's like, hey,
what's going on?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
We thought you were dead?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oh, isn't that the old uh? The old grave uh?
Like the old grave worker type thing and where a
body gets buried and then they tie a string or
something somewhere in the hole and then there's a bell
that sits on top of the grave for just in
case they wake up after being buried and be like
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little hell please.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah. And there have been instances, I believe there was
like one or two where the bell rung and then
had to get this person out of the ground.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Another ritual sees the destruction of a papal symbol known
as the annulus piscatoris or episcatory ring. I feel like
they should have renamed that, but whatever. The ring represents
the first Pope, Saint Peter, who was a fisherman. Usually,
the remnants of the destroyed ring are used to make
a new one for a late pope's successor. This is
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just lord of the ring stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Now that's as precious.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
When the late Pope Francis assumed the papacy, is it papacy,
papacy papacy In twenty thirteen, he opted for a ring
made of gilded silver rather than the traditional ring of
yellow gold. Just like you said, there tree, there you go.
This right includes certain steps leading up to the rings
being destroyed. See this is Lord of the Rings. I
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feel like this Pope's death is being directed by Peter Jackson.
Be really interesting though, if the Pope gets to the
gates and St. Peter's St. Peter's standing there with a
big staff and says you shall not pass, and would
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he be shocked? Like really, not even me. The destruction
symbolizes the end of a pope's rule, with the creation
of a new ring representing a new pope, assuming the
papacy the new ring to rule them all is my assumption.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
That's I mean, it's, you know, the the the person
you want to be pope is the person who doesn't
want to be pope. And but the problem is, I
mean it's it's as much as they want to think
it's a holy process. I mean, it's a bunch of
you know, power hungry cardinals that all, you know, jockeying
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for position.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
To roomful of the dude swearing up down left right side.
But I don't want to beat a pulp not at all.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Or no, I don't know what to all.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Right, one of you's got at least say yes, well,
and that you've got to say all right, I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
That That is the fascinating thing. The thing about Pope
Francis is he came, like to the story, he was
in the process of resigning when Benedict he wanted to
be transferred back to it from Argentina.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I believe m h.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
He wanted to be you know, basically demoted and not
be a cardinal anymore, or basically go back to Argentina
when Benedict was resigning, and Benedict was like.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You know, you need to be pope and he didn't
want it.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
See that tells me that the three taps to the
forehead are not gentle taps. He knows he's going to
get smacked in the head with a silver hammer three
times and he doesn't want to have to endure that.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I think it'll be dead. I don't think that's the
It's just one of those like well, like you was saying,
like some people that that's why they vote, that's why
they vote because you don't have a choice. Then so
if if it's a unanimous vote, then it's you, even
if you don't want it.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Even even if you're trying to take the Nazi way
out and run to South America, the Catholic Church will
find you. Uh. And you know what, maybe maybe the
three smacks to the head with the silver hammer. Look,
it clearly works. Maybe it's not only a tool to see.
Maybe it's not only a test to see if you
are in fact dead. But if you wake up after
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the first or second, then then you get two more,
just to make sure the job is finished. Because we've
already started up the smoke and the fire, and we're
already printing out little pieces of paper for ballots.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I mean, maybe we're overthinking it. Maybe they just like
the game of.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Whack a Pope, the best of the State Fair games.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
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the Treehouse Show. I'm Dan, He's Trade. That's Roger. There
is Jerry, speaking of fun summer vacations. I don't know
if you can find anyone that had more fun last
week than this guy. A personal injury attorney, was arrested
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last week after police say he was downtown yelling at
the top of his lungs without any clothes on. Is
anyone else hoping this was Jim Adler or is it
just me?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I was gonna say he was waving around the Texas Hammer.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
That's the first thing I thought of.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Man.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I was like, oh, please tell me that Jim Adler
went on vacation. This happened in Charleston, South Carolina. It
was not Jim Adler. Instead, it was William Mullens McLeod Junior.
He is a Charleston personal injury attorney. He was arrested
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after police say he was downtown yelling at the top
of his lungs without any clothes on. He was charged
with public disorderly conduct and booked at the Al Cannona
Tention Center early in the morning. An incident report from
Charleston Police states an officer was in the area when
they observed McLeod walking along the battery screaming Wednesday morning.
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He was wearing all his underwear and shoes. During the incident,
they confronted him and began and he began rambling incoherently.
I'm still not so sure this is not Jim Adler.
Half the time you can't understand what he's saying anyway,
But you also have.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
To realize, like he was just an underwear and shoes.
That means he took his shoes off to take his
pants off and then put his shoes back on.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I understand that, I too have to.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Maybe wherever he was, that's just all he put on.
He just reached over and grabbed his shoes.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
And yeah, you know, maybe he lives in one of
the high rises there, and was like, you know what,
I am hammered. I am I'm the Texas hammered, and
I have to go for a walk right now, and
I need to scream.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And I can't do that in my house.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I'm Jim Adler.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Ohs, I got so drunk.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
I run out of my hotel wearing nothing but shoes
and mondies. Now you know why they call me the
Texas Hammer. I was actually on the run from a
big truck. They saw me naked on top of a
big truck and they said get off, and I said,
I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I'm Jim Adler.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Have you ever been hitting the head by a helicopter
or is it just my wing? He's swinging round and
round from the top of this truck.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Hitting the head by a helicopter?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Okay, have you ever been hitting the head but my hammer?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Call me Jim Adler.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I'll get you fifty million dollars in your pocket. Speaking
of pockets, can I have your pants? I seem to
have misplaced mine.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Do you make fun of your son Bill and call
him the ball peen hammer? How do you know his nickname?
Speaker 6 (15:31):
That's exactly what I call my boy. He's the ball
peen hammer. It's just tiny and stupid. No one knows
what to do with it, just like a ball peen hammer.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
That's my bully. He can't get his own job. He's
got to be on the truck with me. He d moron.
I that he would be a rubber mallet. Uh. He's
got that little round head. Yeah, with the helmet.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So he's a lawyer and slow.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
You know it's because every time he shoot one of
these commercials on top of a truck, he keeps falling off.
Takes like a hundred takes.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Every time he's fallen off one hundred times. I don't
want him representing me.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
It's more of a make a wish attorney at this point.
He's never lead counsel, just more special counsel.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
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All right, gentlemen, we haven't done this in a while,
but here we go. It's time for believe it or
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not inside the Treehouse. Inside the Treehouse today, it is
time for.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
Believe it or not.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I'm going to read you, guys, a statement from a
news story, and you tell me whether or not. Well,
you believe it all right?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
So here we go believe it or not?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Inside the treehouse to day. Archaeologists have unearthed mysterious enormous
shoes from an ancient Roman fort. Archaeologists have unearthed mysterious
enormous shoes from an ancient Roman fort.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Do you believe it or not?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Archaeologists have unearthed mysterious enormous shoes from an ancient Roman fort.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Do you believe it or not? I believe it? Okay, Jerry?
Do you believe it or not?
Speaker 7 (18:34):
You know what, I'll take the other one.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Okay, Jerry, you are wrong, raj you are correct. You
must believe it. Archaeologists have in fact unearthed mysterious enormous
shoes from an ancient Roman fort.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Who hasn't shock Banged?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I had no idea he was an immortal, of course.
Is Researchers were shocked to discover a number of enormous
leather shoes that are significantly larger than normal during recent
digs in northern England, and they don't know why they're
so big. The oversized shoes are from Magna, a Roman
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era fort along Hadrian's Wall which is a seventy three
mile stone wall that delineated the northwest edge of the
Roman Empire and was constructed starting in one twenty two CE.
The Roman Army Museum states that the fort was in
use from eighty five until one twenty two CE. Real quick,
(19:43):
what does c E stand for?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Common Era? Is that?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Just?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Is that woke initials for.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
After for eight basically yeah, and then BCE before common era?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah? Got it?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Okay, anyway, I'm just curious. Eight enormous leather shoes, eight
of them, each greater than eleven point eight inches long,
have been discovered by archaeologists since May. Currently, about twenty
five percent of all shoes discovered at the site so
far are extra large specimens. While investigating a defensive ditch
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where Roman troops were also known to poop, researchers found
the first enormous shoe. According to Christina Kilgrove of Live Science,
the sole of that shoe measured twelve point six inches,
or about the same length as a men's fourteen in
the United States. After continuing their excavation, archaeologists discovered thirty
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three more pairs of shoes in various sizes, some of
which seem to have been designed for young people. They
even discovered a shoe that is twelve point eight inches long.
The soles are all composed of thinctionates of cowhide leather
that are secured by iron hobneys. Because to the low
oxygen content of the local soil, the shoes have remained
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intact for almost two thousand years. Now, why some of
these shoes are so big is a mystery to researchers.
My question to you is is there something super mysterious
going on or did the Roman Army have a special
clown regiment.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Or they just got to keep digging and fund of basketball.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Eventually the court it was the Roman Globetrotters. I'd watch
them every day with metal Lark Aurelius.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
Always battling the Jews, the little white guys that just
couldn't keep up.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
That's their Washington general.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I didn't know the Romans at a basketball team.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
That's pretty awesome.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Good for that, yeah, and and and and the Starter
League because they had shoes for younger kids too.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
It's good to know that a development league, ye summer league. Man,
what what couldn't the Romans do.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Keep that bitch from burning down? That's what they couldn't
move well.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
You can't win them all. Sometimes the little generals get you.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
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